Fate's Fools by OPHELIA BELL

Author:OPHELIA BELL [BELL, OPHELIA]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Amazon: B07H2YBDSL
Publisher: Animus Press
Published: 2018-11-06T00:00:00+00:00

19

Deva

“How old were you when you went into hibernation?” I asked. I was deflecting but I wanted to make sure the guys had a valid frame of reference before they drew any conclusions about me.

“Twenty-two. But that was over five centuries ago.”

“Exactly how much maturing did you do in those five centuries?” I raised my eyebrows at him.

Keagan snorted. “Mature is the last word I’d use for Rohan. He’s five hundred going on twelve.”

“I’m still older than you, dickhead,” Rohan shot back, tossing a slightly singed throw pillow at the ursa.

I darted a quick glance at Llyr who still regarded me in silence. His aura was as clear and placid as a still pool and my heart thumped when I saw his soul within his core. The egg-shaped ball of light pulsed with its own power, faint tendrils floating out of it like tiny veins of light. It reminded me of that first look I’d had of my parents’ souls, shortly after I discovered I could see them, and how the magic flowed between them, the tendrils connecting and twining together. The permanence of that connection was apparent from the way the thread remained, faint yet visible, even when they weren’t near each other. Two souls linked, or in most cases, several souls joined in a perfect, beautiful knot of threads. Yet another reminder of what I could never have.

Yet another reminder of what I might deprive anyone else of if I let them love me.

I tamped down that ache. There was more at stake than my own juvenile wish for a soul mate I could never have. Hundreds of other souls were at risk if I didn’t figure out how to stop these attacks.

“My point is that your age is not a reflection of your maturity. The eternity I spent steeped in ancient satyr blood only lasted five months, yet I experienced lifetimes.”

“And yet you barely know how to make a sandwich,” Keagan said, giving me a wry look.

I huffed. “I didn’t exactly get a lot of practical knowledge in that tank, but what I did get was an ability to learn quickly. You only have to explain something to me once. That’s what makes my nature so frustrating to me. I know what I am capable of. I know how to shift, breathe fire, heal wounds, drift thousands of miles away, or even directly into any of the higher realms, I just don’t have the power to do those things.

Rohan frowned and I sensed his gears turning, but before he could say anything, Keagan had done the math.

“You’re only a year old.” He tilted his head as his gaze slipped down my body and back up, lingering on my breasts that still threatened to explode out of the bodice of my borrowed dress.

“Bullshit,” Rohan said. “You were in a temporal bubble, you aged there.”

“The bubble was designed to slow time, not speed it up. Yes, I did age there, but it happened instantaneously. And very painfully, I might add.

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